Notable Quotes

…nobody has ever been more articulate while face down in the gutter than    --The Tris McCall Report  “…it’s time Las Vegas discovered drunken anti-hero Mishka Shubaly, who writes lines like ‘God, you’re so beautiful, it’s like you’re fucking deformed.’”         --Las Vegas Weekly “…a gruff chronicler of fuckups and fuckovers.  He smothers the bullshit out of fractured folk.” --Village Voice  “Most singer-songwriters have nothing on Mishka Shubaly.”        --Transform Online “…brainy, smart-ass songs of disappointment and ‘heartbreak and liver failure’ chronicle the loser life in fresh, often hilarious fashion.”                     --Westword, CO “Shubaly’s voice ain’t exactly pretty, but it’s just right for his music: thickly melodic sing-along songs that yank at your heartstrings and dark furious rockers.”         --Time Out NY “…it might seem insane that Shubaly decided to sell all his shit last year, buy a van and tour the country with wry tunes of disaster and heartbreak that are more No Depression than Yes New York. But Shubaly's always maintained strength in the face of being a ridiculously overmatched underdog. He's created gorgeous songs that make grown men cry, that remind you of teenage heartache and totally disarm you”                            --Portland Mercury “Mishka Shubaly is this week's unknown that you don't want to miss.  Dirty, down-and-out, hungover country rock songwriter Shubaly writes some of the best lyrical lines you've never heard, and delivers them in a gruff, only semi-musical voice while punishing a guitar for some imagined sin.  Shubaly is currently homeless, having vowed to stay on the road for a year without a break, and should be just weathered enough by now to sing it like he means it.  Great stuff.”  --Tampa Weekly Planet “Our pick of the week is ramblin' man Mishka Shubaly, who last year packed it all up in a mini-van to live on the road. Shubaly grabs your attention with his anti-hero, lo-fi attitude and his great (sometimes off-keyed) growl, as deep as an oil barrel full of polluted gunk. Combine that with Shubaly's moody, minor note melodies, and his less than poetic lyrics and you've got raw art.”                 --Fayetteville Free Weekly “Brooklyn-based Mishka Shubaly's two albums reveal his biting sense of humor-- like all good 'depressing' music, there's a wink and a nod behind the bourbon and the smoke.  He's got one of those 'acquired' voices (Tom Waits, Smoke's Benjamin) that's really pretty great.”                                                    --Flagpole, GA “…a tough guy too heartbroken to crack wise, a drunken lover looking to escape himself, excoriating friends and enemies, always intelligent, dangerous as a poorly chained Doberman. … raffish, sincere, literate, boozy and heartbroken, diabolically clever when not earnest and plain-faced, relentlessly committed to rock and roll.  ”